Winston Lake Family YMCA

Participants in Winston Lake Family YMCA’s popular Silver Sneakers program broke bread together May 14 for the First Annual Robert Edwards Silver Sneakers Luncheon. Edwards is a longtime Winston Lake employee and an instructor for Silver...

Dr. Nkrumah Lewis, a Winston-Salem State University professor and author of “Becoming a Butterfly: From Prison to Ph.D.,” shared lessons from the School of Hard Knocks and the wisdom of an unconventionally broad spectrum of life experiences last...

The Winston Lake Family YMCA will hold its 16th Annual Black Achievers in Business & Industry Awards Gala on Thursday, May 9 at 6:30 p.m. at the Sundance Plaza Hotel and Spa, 3050 University Pkwy. The event recognizes high school students...

YMCA needs diversity To the Editor: I have been going over the events that happened in the meeting that took place April 9 at the (Winston Lake Family YMCA) about what kind of new leader we need at Winston Lake. I said new because we have had...

YMCA of Northwest North Carolina CEO Curt Hazelbaker told Winston Lake Family YMCA members, staffers and volunteers Tuesday that a search for a new executive director for the branch may begin next month. Former Executive Director Shawan Gabriel...

Winston-Salem State University Head Men’s Basketball Coach Bobby Collins has been selected for two local community service awards. Collins will receive the YMCA Black Achievers Distinguished Service Award on Thursday, May 9 at 6:30 p.m. at the...

Three months after Executive Director Shawan Gabriel left the Winston Lake Family YMCA to take his current post as CEO of Big Brothers Big Sisters, the branch is still without a leader. Curt Hazelbaker, CEO of the YMCA of Northwest North...

Curt Hazelbaker, the CEO of the YMCA of Northwest North Carolina, vowed that the Winston Lake Family Y would have a new executive director to fill the shoes of former ED Shawan Gabriel by the end March. March has come and gone, and April is...

The Winston Lake Family YMCA has received a $10,000 grant from the Walmart Foundation to increase efforts to feed kids enrolled in its after-school program. The Fulton, William G. White Jr. and Wilkes County YMCA branches received $10,000...

The Winston-Salem Sportsmen Club is considering inductees to the Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Sports Hall of Fame. For more than 30 years, the Sportsmen have selected accomplished athletes, coaches, athletic directors and other supporters of...

The National Pan-Hellenic Council of Winston-Salem/Forsyth County came together, in conjunction with the Sickle Cell Foundation, to assemble Thanksgiving baskets for two single-parent headed families. Each basket contained a ham, turkey, rice,...

Members have a new nature-friendly exercise option at the Winston Lake Family YMCA. Its new outdoor biking class is being billed as a break from treadmills, ellipticals and other traditional fitness center machines. Riders depart the Winston...

In an effort to improve the health and wellness of the community it serves, the Winston Lake Family YMCA has hired its first-ever full-time youth and adult sports coordinator. DeShaun Love, a city native, assumed the position on May 23. “Our...